Tim van Kempen

He/Him. Ariel/PLATO Calibration and TROPOMI-SWIR Instrument Scientist @ SRON - NL. Sort of still an Astronomer. Tattoo's, Dutch, sci-fi, GoT, van Gogh, Tolkien.

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@hfalcke This is great news! Congratulations!

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@ProfSeraMarkoff Congratulations!

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@AstroJoeC @Google Well. Apparent and absolute mean the same right? 😝

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@ivbemmel Surprisingly accurate

[Nick Stewart @NStewWX]

OH MY GOODNESS!
#Artemis

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@WiseSpaceNL @mariekebaan @govender Dat is zeer verdrietig nieuws.

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@AstroJoeC @SKAO @ASTRON_NL Wow, amazing well-deserved news!
I may need to have you over for a talk @ SRON soon ;-)

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@ESA_EO Santiago de chile.

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@ivbemmel @BenneHolwerda This is sooo my pet peeve as a dad as well. Hey The dad does schedule and sports. Let’s still send school appointments and birthday party invitations to the mom only

[André Kuipers @astro_andre]

Fascinerend bezoek aan Stichting Ruimteonderzoek Nederland @SRON_Space Hoogstaand onderzoek.Passievolle experts. Indrukwekkende ontwikkeling van extreem nauwkeurige instrumenten om vanuit de ruimte baanbrekende metingen te doen. Van atmosfeersamenstelling tot zwaartekrachtgolven

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@bibianaprinoth trying to calibrate a bandpass (radio) using Jupiter and taking one hour while hitting limit switches to realise we forgot a minus sign and Jupiter was 45 degrees below the horizon and not 45 degrees above it. So the Earth was in the way ;-)

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@mattkenworthy depends, are you using Python for the assignments? 😉

[SRON Space Research @SRON_Space]

#phd position #vacancy in astronomy instrumentation! You will work on an MKID camera for the Extremely Large Telescope. Supervised by @PieterJdeVisser and @mattkenworthy https://t.co/pwy6G2R2bt

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@drannawatts I am bit conflicted. I've also seen a lot of peers with much more talent for languages than STEM and vice-versa. They still need to do both. Shouldn't effort and enthusiasm count for PE grades much more than actual results(?). Not sure if this is the case though.

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

Today I will send a draft paper to coauthors. Been working on and off on this for two years. Still a long way to go to submission. #tropomi

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@OemTrivedi Zero. Got my first paper 2 years into my phd

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

how I spend yesterday afternoon

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@ivbemmel @michelle_lmc @drannawatts old fashioned shouldn't have made it okay 25 (or even 100) years ago.

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@Harcel @ivbemmel note that I think that is possible makes our system worse....

[Tim van Kempen @Tim_v_K]

@Harcel @ivbemmel Ah I see, yes, but they use 'onlangs' which is my confusion, which means he perhaps hadn't been convicted yet when he started (but already suspended, which is worrying in itself). In that case you can get the VOG.